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Version 1.1.0 - May 18, 2020

With this version, the theme has fully implemented static search using lunr.js. That being said, a few modifications were necessary to implement this feature.

To utilize this, or future version of Hugo Future Imperfect Slim, please make the following changes:

Add the following to your config.toml before [params]:

...
disableLanguages = [""]

[outputs]
    home = ["html", "json"]

[params]
...

Remove the underscore from all about and contact page file names: _index.md --> index.md
Add layout = "about" or layout = "contact" to all of the files you just just adjusted the file names for.

While I realize this is inconvenient, I hope that it is worth it to you in the long run. Thanks for using the theme, and feel free to submit issues as needed.

Hawau Olamide Toyin

hawau.toyin@mbzuai.ac.ae

Hi, I'm Hawau.

a PhD student at MBZUAI under Dr Hanan Aldarmaki working on building speech models for real world impact, particularly in low-resource and atypical speech areas. My PhD thesis is on building models for automatic stutter severity assessment in collaboration with speech-language pathologists. I enjoy collaborating on interesting resource development projects and contributing open-source resource for the research community.

Updates…

(2026 Apr) Presented my work on stuttering at ALPS 2026!

(2026 Mar) Serving as a program committee member for Speakable 2026, co-located with LREC 2026!

(2026 Feb) Grateful to have 2 papers accepted at LREC 2026!

(2026 Feb) Happy to have presented a workshop at MBZUAI 5-year anniversary alumni event!

(2025 Dec) Grateful to have received the fee waiver to attend ALPS 2026!

(2025 May) Grateful to have 3 papers accepted to Interspeech conference!

(2025 May) Grateful to have 2 papers accepted to ACL 2025 main conference!

(2025 May) I was invited to give a research talk during my research visit to ISTI-CNR this month!

(2025 Apr) I attended the Computing Research Association – Widening Participation conference (CRA-WP) in Denver.

(2025 Jan) I presented a poster at COLING 2025 in Abu Dhabi.

(2024 Dec) I am grateful to have won a research grant from ITSERR-TNA!

(2024 Dec) I co-organized the AI winter school for highschool kids at MBZUAI.

(2024 Dec) I attended the Arabic winter school in Riyadh!

(2024 Aug) I hosted an alumni panel at MBZUAI to welcome the class of 2025.

(2024 Aug) Excited to start my PhD at MBZUAI with Hanan Aldramaki🤍!

(2024 Jul) I co-organized the AI summer school for highschool kids at MBZUAI.